Re: Opinions Please on Norton

I believe you. I think Willy said his highest was 3000 on a single
computer......kind of blows your mind, doesn't it.

As for FireFox.....I love it. It was the folks on here who recommended it.

Heather

"Ghostown" <none@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> At my work, I try to keep tabs on how much spyware Ill find on users
systems
> when Im called about problems. Right now, the record is over 5,000 files
> found (Ad-Aware) on one PC. It took me almost 3 hours to clean his
system.
> It was so bad that Ad-Aware was freezing up so I ended up scanning and
> re-scanning, dumping about 500 files at a time until they were all gone.
In
> retrospect, I should have just re-imaged his machine, but I look at things
> like this as a lesson learned for the user. The whole time Im cleaning
his
> system, he isnt able to work. If he isnt able to work, his boss gets
upset.
> I make sure that everyone there knows why the system was polluted. I
tried
> introducing Firefox onto our systems, but our 'in charge' IT people said
> that it wasnt going to be supported by us so out the window it went. Oh
> well, I guess its job security.
>
>


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